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Evening Standard
Ruth Bloomfield

London leaver: 'our move from Brockley to a historic hamlet was sparked by safety concerns'

Alex Austin had long planned on moving to the country to raise a family in a beautiful old house surrounded by nature.

And in 2023 he and his partner Fran Warrington, began to make that fantasy a reality when they found their dream home – a six-bedroom cottage dating from the 1600s in a hamlet just outside of Market Harborough, the historic Leicestershire market town where Warrington’s family live.

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